Search with Solr

Powerful search technology for your website with Apache Solr.
We develop customized search solutions that are accurate, error-tolerant, and lightning fast. Whether it's product data, technical articles, or documents, Solr searches and weights your content so that users always get the best results.

Google vs. Solr

The ubiquitous Google search delivers fast and precise results. Onsite searches always have to compete with this quasi-standard. Simple text searches are therefore often not sufficient, especially for applications with large amounts of data.

Apache Solr closes this gap and can be optimally customised to your individual use case.

Solr Functions

Solr offers a wide range of features and is robust, flexible, and highly scalable. Key features:

High Performance
Solr is a standalone search engine that guarantees fast and efficient searches even with large amounts of data.
Faceted Search
With faceted search, users can filter search results by category, attribute, or tag, allowing them to refine their search.
Individual Relevance Ranking
Solr enables flexible weighting of search hits in order to prioritize relevant results for users.
Error-tolerant Full-Text Search
Even with typos or imprecise wording, Solr delivers relevant results thanks to its powerful fuzzy search.
Document & Asset Indexing
Solr can also search and index content from documents such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files, as well as other assets.

Three Steps to Solr Search

Concept
Our UX experts thoroughly analyze your requirements. In collaboration with you and our Solr experts, we develop a customized concept for your individual use case.
Implementation
The introduction of Solr offers a range of technical options for which sound planning, expertise, and experience are crucial. In addition to implementing the central search functions, this includes correctly configuring the Solr servers for optimal performance, mapping data sources, and ensuring data security and integrity. Our experts will implement Solr successfully and effectively for you.
Hosting
As mentioned, Solr runs independently of the web application on its own server, on which a high-performance search index (Solr core) is built. Our specialized hosting services guarantee you a reliable and scalable infrastructure to maximize the performance of your Solr application.

Application Examples

To illustrate the performance of Solr search in more concrete terms, we will show you some project examples in which we were able to significantly increase the user experience and the success of the application by using Solr.

ISB: Faceted Search
A full-text and document search (Solr FAL) was integrated for the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research when the platform went live.
In the next stage of development, the search UX was optimized with faceting and sorting functions: Users can now sort results by relevance or recency, narrow them down by content type (pages or documents), and filter them by subject area, such as “high school.”
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DBmobil: Solr × SPA
For DBmobil, we integrated the “Deutschland-Atlas” (Germany Atlas) into the digital magazine as a single-page application.
The Solr search displays Atlas content such as “sights” or “restaurants” as info snippets, which are displayed directly as active elements via deep linking in the context of the SPA as soon as users select them.
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Multi-domain Search
For an enterprise customer with a large, multilingual multi-domain instance, we implemented a Solr search that builds a cross-domain index.
The parent company site displays results from all business areas, while within the individual areas only results from the respective domain context are visible.